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| BioBulletin
is the Science Bulletin located in the Museum's Hall of Biodiversity. The
BioBulletin web site presents stories and data about global biodiversity.
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| The
Biodiversity Counts web site presents a middle-school science program that
gets students out of the classroom and into the field to study biodiversity.
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| This web site
is a companion to the 16-page activity magazine produced for the Hall of
Biodiversity. With stories and activities, it explores biodiversity around
the world and close to home. |
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| The
Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts |
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| Edited by Museum
Provost Michael Novacek, this book is a comprehensive overview of the main
concepts and issues of global biodiversity. It is part of a series published
by The
New Press and distributed by W.W. Norton to trade markets. Available Spring 2001
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| Why are fishes
the most diverse and abundant group of vertebrates on the tree of life?
Explore this question in "Diversity of Fishes" a six-week seminar
developed by the Museum and offered through Classroom Connect. |
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| Endangered
Species |
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| One
of the Science Seekers CDROMs developed with and published by Tom
Snyder Productions, Endangered Species encourages students to learn
about factors that influence the population growth and decline of sea otters.
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| In an ongoing
partnership, AMNH scientists and Discovery Channel Online photographers
and jouralists collaborate to highlight this Museum exhibition on infectious
diseases. |
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| Epidemic:
The World of Infectious Disease |
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| Edited by Museum
scientist Rob DeSalle, Epidemic explores the world of infectious disease
through a natural history perspective. It is part of a series published
by The
New Press and distributed by W.W. Norton to trade markets. |
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| This web site
archives the April 1997 symposium "Humans and Other Catastrophes".
Three hundred scientists, jounalists, policy makers, and interested members
of the general public participated in this symposium hosted by the Museum. |
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| This web site
augments the Fred Friendly Seminar on infectious diseases broadcast in June
1999 on PBS. The site includes an essay by Museum scientist Rob DeSalle,
and activities to take the TV program into the classroom. |
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| This web site
introduces young children and their families to biodiversity and observing
nature through comparative activities, field journals, and making your own
dioramas. |
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| This web site
is a companion to the 16-page activity magazine produced for Museum exhibition
Epidemic! Through stories and interactive games, it explores the spread
and prevention of infectious diseases in everyday places and situations. |
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| This web site
was designed by kids for kids to tell them what they really want to know
about biodiversity. |
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| As part of an
ongoing partnership, the Museum and Discovery Channel Online collaborate
to study creatures along one of the world's largest barrier reefs, in the
Bahamas. |
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| Museum scientists
and Discovery Channel Online meet in the Arizona desert to study lizards
and report their findings in daily dispatches on this web site. |
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| Follow the 1998
expedition to Siberia led by Curator Ross MacPhee to gather evidence for
his new theory that disease caused the extinction of the woolly mammoth. |
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| Join Museum scientists
and photographers and journalists from Discovery Channel Online for a month-long
spider hunt in the Australian outback. |
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| Collect, identify,
and learn to love spiders from your own backyard in this six-week seminar
developed by the Museum and offered through Classroom Connect. |
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| Join Museum scientists
as they track and record the behavior of humpback whales off the coast of
Madagascar in this collaboration with Discovery Channel Online. |
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| Try to imagine
what the world was like 20,000 years ago, and consider three contending
theories on the extinction of the woolly mammoth in the six-week seminar
developed by the Museum and offered through Classroom Connect.. |
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